Re: Probably, but jumping the gun
Oh, it's pedantry you want, eh?
The President-Elect is not determined when "the states certify the results". It happens when:
- The Electoral College returns a vote where one slate of candidates (one each for President and Vice President) gets an absolute majority, and the votes are counted by Congress in a special session, and one or the other chambers of Congress fails to challenge the votes received from any of the individual States; or
- The EC fails to return a vote where one slate gets an absolute majority, contingent elections are held in Congress, with the House of Representatives choosing the President and the Senate choosing the Vice President (this has happened three times in US history); or
- The EC returns a suitable vote, but the votes from one or more of the States are challenged by at least one member of each house of Congress. This temporarily interrupts the vote-counting session for deliberations. Congress can reject the votes from any of the States, in whole or in part. (This hasn't happened since 1872, though there were objections raised in 2001, and in 2004 the session was actually suspended briefly for a joint objection.) Once all objections have been dealt with, the vote counting is completed by Congress.
In the first or third case, the President-Elect is formally decided when the presiding officer (usually the current Vice President, sometimes the President pro tem of the Senate) announces the official tally. In the second case, I believe it's when the votes of the two chambers are recorded.
In some, but not all, of the states, state law requires electors to vote as they have pledged, or according to the state's apportionment of electors (which amounts to the same thing). But not in all of them, and even in the states which make such laws it's not entirely clear what would happen if an elector is faithless (i.e. votes otherwise). So certification by the states does not determine the President-Elect.
All that said, most sensible people have decided that Biden is the presumptive President-Elect. Complaining that an article about potential commercial consequences for a foreign firm doesn't spell out these niceties seems rather unnecessary, if not childish.